Kadant share price today

Kadant Inc.'s share price was $308.56 at the close on 4 November 2026. It has been stalling near its high for 1 week. That is 0.9% above its average price over the last 200 trading days. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 12 weeks running.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). Today Kadant Inc. is in stage 3. The phase helps read everything below.

In the last 52 weeks it traded between $255 and $343, and at that close it sat 61% of the way up from that low.

Over the last 10 years the share price moved +482% while the S&P 500 moved +261%, so it is ahead of the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 14 August 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Kadant Inc. paid $1.40 per share over the last four reported quarters. The most recent declaration was $0.36 for Jul 2026. At today's price of $308.56 that is a yield of 0.45%, based on dividends already paid, not a forecast.

A dividend is cash paid out for each share. The 12-month total is the four most recent quarters added together.

Kadant is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

Kadant Inc. earned $32.8 M of net profit in the Jul 2026 quarter, +23.3% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 2nd quarter in a row of profit growth. Full-year FY26 profit was $104 M. Over 4 years profit has grown 5.1% a year on average. That is 10.5% of the quarter's revenue.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

The same quarter a year earlier earned $26.6 M.

For the full year, FY26 profit was $104 M (−7.9% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed +22.6% on a year earlier and the margin moved +1.0 percentage points. Sales did the work, and the margin was about flat.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed +5.7% and revenue +13.4%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth.

Kadant Inc. reported $313 M of revenue in the Jul 2026 quarter, +22.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 2nd quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 7.5% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at $1.1 B.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

The last four reported quarters add to $1.2 B.

FY26 revenue was $1.1 B, −0.1% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +13.4% on average, against 7.5% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing faster than its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +12.5%, against +7.0% a year over the last 8 quarters (accelerating); profit over the last 12 months grew +3.9%, against −1.7% a year (accelerating).

Kadant Inc.'s operating margin was 16.8% in the Jul 2026 quarter, 1.0 percentage points higher than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 15.6% and 17.6%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Operating margin is what is left from every $100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed +1.0 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −1.7 points. So the gain came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged.

Over the last 3 years, 148% of Kadant Inc.'s reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY26 it brought in $171 M of operating cash against $104 M of profit. After $17.0 M of spending on assets, $154 M was left over as free cash.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

Kadant Inc. does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent $69.9 M on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 2.2% of FY26 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: $69.9 M over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

Kadant Inc.'s P/E is 31.1×, in the middle of its own history: higher than 51% of past readings. Its usual P/E (the middle reading) is 30.9×, over 4.6 years of weekly prices. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.